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9780534561536

Applying Ethics A Text with Readings (with InfoTrac)

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  • Copyright: 2001-07-20
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Table of Contents

Preface vii
PART 1 Moral Reasoning
Moral Reasons
3(46)
Moral Reasoning
4(1)
Individual Morality and Social Morality
5(1)
Ethical Relativism
5(2)
Principles of Individual Morality
7(7)
Principles of Social Morality
14(9)
Summary and Conclusions
23(1)
Moral Virtue
24(7)
Aristotle
Respect for Persons
31(4)
Immanuel Kant
Utilitarianism
35(5)
John Stuart Mill
The Need for More than Justice
40(7)
Annette C. Baier
Selections for Further Reading
47(1)
Web Sites
47(2)
Good Reasoning
49(24)
Arguments
50(5)
Evaluating Moral Arguments
55(13)
Summary and Conclusions
68(1)
Selections for Further Reading
69(1)
Web Sites
70(3)
PART 2 Issues
Sexual Morality
73(47)
The Traditional View
74(1)
The Libertarian View
75(1)
Treating Sex Differently
76(3)
Arguments for Sexual Libertarianism
79(2)
Arguments against Sexual Libertarianism
81(2)
Sexual Morality
83(6)
Roger Scruton
Plain Sex
89(11)
Alan H. Goldman
Why Homosexuality Is Abnormal
100(7)
Michael Levin
Homosexuality and Nature
107(7)
Timothy E Murphy
Case Presentations
Deception or Joke?
114(1)
AIDS Education
115(1)
A Fast for Understanding
116(1)
Murphy v. Dan
117(1)
Selections for Further Reading
118(1)
Web Sites
119(1)
Pornography
120(49)
The Meaning of pornography and Obscenity
121(2)
Effects of pornography
123(2)
Moral Issues
125(1)
Arguments against Pornography
126(1)
Arguments for Pornography
127(1)
Arguments for Censorship
128(1)
Arguments against Censorship
129(1)
Beyond the (Garbage) Pale, or Democracy, Censorship and the Arts
130(4)
Walter Berns
Pornography and Respect for Women
134(8)
Ann Garry
Dissenting Opinion in United States v. Roth
142(10)
Judge Jerome Frank
The Moral Theory of Free Speech and Obscenity Law
152(10)
David A. J. Richards
Case Presentations
Ginzburg v. United States (1966)
162(2)
The Mapplethorpe Photographs: Censorship and the NEA
164(1)
Ticketed for Obscenity on the Information Superhighway
165(1)
Art Entertainment or Child Pornography?
166(2)
Selections for Further Reading
168(1)
Web Sites
168(1)
Abortion
169(49)
Biological Background
171(2)
The Moral Problem
173(1)
The Ontological Status of the Fetus
173(2)
The Moral Status of the Fetus
175(2)
Pro-Life Arguments (against Abortion)
177(1)
Pro-Choice Arguments (for Abortion)
178(2)
An Almost Absolute Value in History
180(5)
John T. Noonan
A Defense of Abortion
185(11)
Judith Jarvis Thomson
On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
196(10)
Mary Anne Warren
Virtue Theory and Abortion
206(7)
Rosalind Hursthouse
Case Presentations
Mrs. Sherri Finkbine and the Thalidomide Tragedy
213(1)
``Conceived in Violence Born in Hate''
214(1)
Death in Pensacola
215(1)
The Fight for Martina Greywind's Baby
216(1)
Selections for Further Reading
217(1)
Web Sites
217(1)
Euthanasia
218(49)
Personhood
219(1)
Death
220(2)
Ordinary vs. Extraordinary Treatment
222(1)
Killing vs. Allowing to Die
223(1)
Meaning of Euthanasia: Narrow vs. Broad Interpretations
224(1)
Voluntary vs. Nonvoluntary Euthanasia
225(1)
Assisted Suicide
226(1)
The Right to Refuse Treatment
227(1)
Defective Newborns
228(2)
Arguments for Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia
230(1)
Arguments against Voluntary (Active) Euthanasia
231(2)
The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia
233(3)
J. Gay-Williams
Active and Passive Euthanasia
236(4)
James Rachels
Euthanasia
240(15)
Philippa Foot
A Moral Principle about Killing
255(6)
Richard Brandt
Case Presentations
``I Did It Because I Loved My Son''
261(1)
``Myrna is Dead. Desolation''
262(1)
``A Choice Central to Personal Dignity''
263(1)
Legalized Assisted Suicide and Decriminalized Euthanasia
264(2)
Selections for Further Reading
266(1)
Web Sites
266(1)
Human Cloning
267(52)
How Cloning Works: A Brief History
268(2)
Why Clone Humans?
270(1)
Moral and Legal Issues
271(2)
Arguments against Human Cloning
273(1)
Arguments for Human Clonint
274(1)
The Wisdom of Repugnance
275(12)
Leon R. Kass
Moral Status of Cloning Humans
287(12)
Michael Tooley
Genetic Encores: The Ethics of Human Cloning
299(6)
Robert Wachbroit
The Constitution and the Clone
305(6)
Cass R. Sunstein
Case Presentations
Recommendations of the National Bioethics Advisory
311(3)
Clonaid
314(1)
A Birth to Save a Life
315(1)
Therapeutic Human Cloning in Britain
316(1)
Selections for Further Reading
317(1)
Web Sites
318(1)
Capital Punishment
319(41)
The Nature and Definition of Punishment
320(1)
The Moral Acceptability of Punishment
321(1)
Aims of Punishment
322(2)
Retentionist and Abolitionist Defined
324(1)
Capital Punishment as Deterrent
324(2)
Abolitionist Arguments (against Capital Punishment)
326(1)
Retentionist Arguments (for Capital Punishment)
327(2)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
329(5)
Sidney Hook, The Death Sentence
334(5)
Ernest Van Den Haag, On Deterrence and the Death Penalty
339(8)
Hugo Adam Bedau, Capital Punishment and Social Defense
347(7)
Case Presentations
J. D. Autry: Death in Texas
354(1)
Karla Faye Tucker The Pickax Murderer
355(1)
A failed Experiment?
356(2)
Warren McClesky
358(1)
Selections for Further Reading
359(1)
Web Sites
359(1)
Welfare and Social Justice
360(49)
Transfer Payments
361(1)
Does Welfare Work?
362(2)
Why Have Welfare?
364(1)
Distributive Justice
365(1)
Equality, Need, and Merit
366(2)
Libertarianism, Welfare Liberalism, and Socialism
368(1)
Arguments for Welfare
369(2)
Arguments against Welfare
371(1)
What Libertarianism Is
372(7)
John Hospers
The Right to Eat and the Duty to Work
379(9)
Trudy Govier
Radical Egalitarianism
388(9)
Kai Nielsen
Choosing a Future
397(6)
Charles Murray
Case Presentations
Marta Green
403(2)
The Poorest Place in America
405(1)
Welfare as We've Begun to Know It
406(1)
The Women of Project Match
407(1)
Selections for Further Reading
408(1)
Web Sites
408(1)
Job Discrimination
409(40)
Job Discrimination: Its Nature and Forms
411(1)
Evidence of Discrimination
412(4)
Affirmative Action: Preferential Treatment
416(4)
Arguments against Reverse Discrimination
420(1)
Arguments for Reverse Discrimination
421(1)
The Justification of Reverse Discrimination
422(9)
Tom L. Beauchamp
A Defense of Programs of Preferential Treatment
431(4)
Richard Wasserstrom
Reverse Discrimination and Compensatory Justice
435(5)
William T. Blackstone
Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified
440(4)
Lisa Newton
Case Presentations
Brian Weber
444(1)
Good News and Bad News
445(1)
Piscataway v. Taxman
446(1)
Proposition 209
447(1)
Selections for Further Reading
448(1)
Web Sites
448(1)
Animal Rights
449(49)
What Do We Owe Nonhuman Animals?
450(2)
Animal Rights
452(1)
What's Wrong with Speciesism?
453(3)
Arguments for Equal Treatment of Animals
456(1)
Arguments against Equal Treatment of Animals
457(2)
All Animals Are Equal...or why supporters of liberation for Blacks and Women should support Animal Liberation too
459(12)
Peter Singer
The Case for Animal Rights
471(8)
Tom Regan
Do Animals Have Rights?
479(7)
Tibor R. Machan
Speciesism and the Idea of Equality
486(7)
Bonnie Steinbock
Case Presentations
``Putting Her to Sleep''
493(1)
Animal Liberators
494(1)
Religious Sacrifice
495(1)
A Himalayan Snow Leopard of One's Own
496(1)
Selections for Further Reading
497(1)
Web Sites
497(1)
Environmental Ethics
498(47)
Environmental Problems
499(2)
The Moral Issue
501(3)
Why Environmental Ethics?
504(1)
Arguments for an Environmental Ethic
505(1)
Arguments against an Environmental Ethic
506(2)
The Land Ethic
508(9)
Aldo Leopold
The Ethics of Respect for Nature
517(12)
Paul W. Taylor
People or Penguins
529(4)
William F. Baxter
An Ecocentric Environmental Ethic
533(6)
J. Baird Callicott
Case Presentations
A Metaphor for the Energy Debate
539(1)
The Spotted Owl
540(1)
Environmental Resistence: The Chipko Movement and the Earth Liberation Front
541(2)
The Wildlands Project
543(1)
Selections for Further Reading
544(1)
Web Sites
544(1)
Afterword 545(1)
Glossary 546(3)
Index 549

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